Are we actually more stressed than our parents were… or are we just louder about it?

What starts as a post-holiday purge of closets, junk drawers, and emotional baggage turns into a bigger conversation about how different generations deal with stress, feelings, and expectations. Dave and Reese dig into “I’m fine” parenting, modern mental health language, social media overload, and why contentment feels harder to reach than it used to.

They talk about therapy versus group chats, self-awareness versus self-obsession, and the question nobody asks enough: when something bothers you, how do you regulate without letting it run your life?